The Alamo Drafthouse will release three new posters today. First, Daniel Danger’s “Sanctuary Moon” Star Wars print is a 24″ x 36″ screenprint, has an edition of 230, and will cost $50. Secondly, Eric Tan’s Return of the Living Dead poster is a 24″ x 36″ screenprint with an edition of 125, plus there’s also a glow-in-the-dark variant (all colors except black, and including the eyes) with an edition of 65. Lastly, Rhys Cooper’s Critters poster is a 24″ x 36″ screenprint with an edition of 135. All will go up today (Thursday, December 9th)tomorrow (Friday, December 10th) at a random time. Visit Mondotees.com.

Obviously going for the Danger and I wish like hell I could do the same for the stellar Critters poster (Rhys knows creepy!) but there’s no way in my wife would allow that one on a wall. My 3 year old would be scared to death. Such a great poster though.

Haha no way on earth anyone’s carting all three and getting out with their skin on. Only proper strategy tomorrow is to get in and out with the Danger then go back for the other two.
If I score the Danger tomorrow it’ll be a bona fide miracle as I’m going to be at work when these drop. Gonna have to straight tell customers to hold tight while I buy a poster. That’s fun

If stout has a SW print coming there is no way they will drop it on a holiday like NYE or Christmas Eve. Im going to be willing to bet Justin probably wants to be home with his family then not sitting at his computer setting up a print drop.

@Guster
Totally agreed. They are the JarJar of the original trilogy, and are a clear indicator of the direction Lucas would eventually take the franchise. Daniel is an amazing artist, but I’m just not digging this.

I hope Tyler actually doesn’t end up doing a star wars print, and instead puts his immense talent towards either a Pan’s Labyrinth, Devil’s Backbone, or Chronos poster. It seems like his style is much more suited to the movie poster medium, than art prints. Hes so great at distilling an entire movie down to a series images all composed into one excellent piece. Unless he ends up doing actual poster for one of the original trilogy it would just come out weird I think.

@Viv
The ewoks are definitely not as bad as jarjar, but they absolutely make jedi the worst of the original trilogy, in the same way jarjar ruins the prequels with his inclusion in all 3. The idea the empire could be stopped by some teddy bears in the jungle with sticks, vines, and rocks is absurd, and as I said, is a glimpse of the way lucas decided to go with the franchise.

To clarify on my comment about tyler doing a art print, I absolutely believe he can create an amazing piece of art for the series, but I definitely think his style seems more suited to posters, and would prefer to see his time devoted to a movie poster for one of guillermo’s films which are much more artistic and deserving of everyones energy than star wars.

@dd: Haha you stand your ground and don’t take no sass about ewoks from nobody. My wife walked in the room the other day and I was listening to the soundtrack from ‘Who’s That Girl’ hella loud while I was cleaning. She laughed and instead of blaming the kids I just said ‘i like Madonna, that’s just how it is’. She still laughed but she laughed with respect

why do people always blame the imaginary bear on an imaginary planet for ruining star wars?

jared: to be fair, the ewoks did not ‘stop the empire’ with ‘sticks and rocks’. the empire put a shield generator for the death star on a planet, assuming its native inhabitants wouldnt be a problem. so when the rebel squad with LASER GUNS got there and teamed up with them and their better knowledge of the forest (its a revolutionary war callback), they fucked some shit up with logs and traps, taking down a moderately small base filled with dudes who had been sitting around coasting for a year bored, probably shooting leaves. elsewhere, all this allowed for a SQUADRON of SPACESHIPS with LASERS to enter the death star and blow the crap out of everything, stopping the empire. come on, its not like the ewoks were floating around the deathstar hitting it with arrows and hit the ‘weak spot’.

most pressing question for me is:
have mondo sold more than 230 giftcards this last few days?
I always have a nightmare with paypal and the “computer says no” to the state I enter, so we’ll see if the gc works better today ***fingers, toes, and everything else crossed
good luck to everyone

@dd: I think a lot of the hostility toward the little bears comes from the fact that the original concept was to have them be wookies. Lucas killed that concept in favor of ewoks purely from a merchandising standpoint and not because of logistical concerns or storytelling prowess.
That said I always kinda liked the ewok rebellion scenes and I LOVE what’s going on in this here poster regardless of how the creatures came to be.

Ewoks are awesome. Comparing them to Jar Jar isn’t fair. Nobody ever accused Ewoks of being racial stereotypes and at least they were real actors and not more CG shit than you can possible focus your eyes on.

I hope the site holds up better than it did with the Wolfman drop–although that time there were 350 copies instead of 230 copies (and this is Star Wars), so I guess I should naturally expect this to be a lot worse. But the site’s been updated since then and so I have my fingers crossed that it will handle the traffic. Just let me see the “add to cart” button before it crashes.

I have no problem with people liking the Ewoks. I just don’t. The print is awesome but it does not change the nature of the little bastards and how I feel about them, which in the end is good, cause you are all gonna have one less greedy geek clogging up the servers when mondo gives the green light.

A Tyler Stout “Jar Jar” poster would prob be the best thing ever!
Because everybody seems to hate the Binks, however people will buy the shit out of the Stout’s. Can a brother get a Gamorean Guard poster please?